I heard that France is preparing for another possible war with the UK. Apparently they have recently put in an order for twenty five thousand white flags.
@@matt7775 they have their own foreign policy and a stronger army. Equipment is probably about even. The only thing we have in our favour is navy. If we could keep them off the isles we would be okay but it goes on to English soil I can see them taking it
@@jollybodger Not quite - Sir Tim Berners-Lee did indeed invent the world wide web But the internet itself was designed to aid communications across the US military
@@coupsdestylo i believe UK took them during Napoléonic wars or some war (not 100%) so that France didn't become too powerful in the region, the UK helped restore the then Dutch King to power with the caveat mentioned in op.
@@lesjames5191 The introduction of copper bottoms on our ships gave us an advantage over the Dutch although their invasion of England was a success hence James the second was replaced by William and Mary before that we fought the Dutch in a number of sea battles which we did not always win so it is not taught in our history lessons
@@coupsdestylo Iceland invasion was to protect them and stop the Germans attacking. Its like sitting in a pub with your 6ft 6in 20 stone brother. Whos gonna dare pick on you?
Nope it's not big Ben, thats a very common mistake even for Brits, the bell inside is actually big Ben and the tower you seen is actually called Elizabeth Tower :)
The bell isn't called big Ben either, its called the great bell. It's unofficial nick name is big Ben. Although I'm British and have been to the Elizabeth tower multiple times, I only found that out from Vsauce hahaha
The official name was "The Clock Tower" until 2012, when an Establishment lackey thought "If we call it the Elizabeth Tower, I'm sure to get a Knighthood". (Just like the very late running Crossrail line which is now "The Elizabeth Line"). In this country, you can predict the name of every new construction (Elizabeth), and even if it's an old building, the name gets changed anyway!
@@MervynPartin And you don't survey the public for a name, otherwise you'll get y Mcface as one of the top suggestions... ...or an equally horrendous pun - several local authorities hit upon the idea of asking the public to name their gritter fleet, with Scotland being a prime example...
The Vikings settled in Northern France over 100 years prior to 1066, so the Normans that invaded in 1066 were at least 3rd generation and that makes them French as far as I'm concerned.
Normandy was a Duchy of France with the Duke owing fealty to the French King. Since the days of Rollo the descendents of the Vikings had intermarried with the local population, adopted Christianity and spoke a French dialect. I always enjoy a spot of pedantry but really folks, this was just a light hearted remark. But in the interests of being unreasonably stubborn, I'm sticking with them being to all intent and purpose French, so there!
Remember, British history is American history too, America gained independence but most Americans today can trace their ancestry back to places like Britain long after America gained Independence
The former 13 US colonies considered themselves British up until the end of the 18th Century. All the Founding Fathers thought they were truly British patriots. It took 20 years for the former Colonies to gain their own identity as "Colombians" and the USA was originally going to be called Colombia... up until another country went and used that name first.
@@jolan_tru And you only have to look at the American flag, to remember that! The 13 red & white stripes on the 'stars & stripes', are the 13 British colonies! The flag itself, copied from the flag of The British East India Company.. Which flew on every trading vessel from that company, bringing goods to America before/after independence! .. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_East_India_Company
The conversation over Iceland went something like this: B: "Hey Iceland, we're just going to station some troops with you so the Nazis can't use you as a flanking location, k?" I: "Outrageous! We can defend ourselves!" B: "Well clearly you can't, cause watch this..."
Texas is where its at! We have so much work here that salaries are going up to fill the spots and the cost of living is waaaaaaaaaay lower than new york or California. For the price of a large 4 bedroom home with a big front and back yard, you can get a tiny ass apartment in New York
We only borrowed Hong Kong, and it wanted to stay with the UK in the end. Which is part of the reasons why there are so many issues going on at the moment.
Yeah Hong Kong was a part of a deal signed with China that after 100 years we will hand it back.... But them folks in Hong Kong did not want to as they had freedom and democracy under the UK flag and you can look into to see how well Hong Kong was doing while the rest of China was struggling and some of the stories of Chinese people fleeing China to get into Hong Kong are astounding I remmebr hearing one of a couple swam to Hong during a typhoon
didnt the british literally create Hong Kong as a base to export opium and other goods after the opium wars? pretty sure nobody lived on that rock until the british set up shop
@@moonshot9056 yeah they granted us the island but i dont believe there was anything there like a town or any infrastructure, just a rock off the south coast of china, theres a great Kings and Generals video explaining about Jardine-Matheson who were the chief opium traffickers that prompted both the war and also the settling of Hong Kong, if you're interested you should definitely check it out
We only borrowed the New Territories. Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula where owned by Britain. Hong Kong Island was formally ceded to the United Kingdom in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking then Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island in the Convention of Peking In 1860. The colony was further expanded in 1898 when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories. On 19 December 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, in which Britain agreed to return not only the New Territories but also Kowloon and Hong Kong itself when the lease term expired.
@@mattyrose8937 I guess so, but Anglo-Sino relations haven’t been the best for hundreds of years, and in this scenario, if they had the power to fight China, there is a possibility they would. This may be for their national image, as this is commonly referred to as the “last colony to leave the empire”. I doubt it would go into a conflict, but I can imagine the UK saying no.
@@maytheoddsbeinyourfavour The United Kingdom has never gone to war over a breach of an international treaty, that it caused. Not once. Your hypothetical is simply not plausible. Perhaps the US, with a long and inglorious history of tearing up international agreements and treaties, might do such a thing, but it is beyond improbable to imagine the UK disavowing a treaty that it had signed, then launching a war of aggression because of it? That's Twilight Zone levels of crazy.
@@mattyrose8937 Jesus okay, I get you have a point, no need to exaggerate. I’m not saying the UK would go to war, I’m saying that there could be a diplomatic resistance, possibly even denying it, unless it escalated further, or a request to hold it (sorry for being indirect).
The last time France and England fought was probably not as long ago as you might think. During WW2 the Commander of the French Navy promised to scuttle their ships for fear of them falling into German hands - but failed to do so. This put Churchill in a difficult position. In 1940 he finally instructed the Royal Navy to do the job for them. The fleet was sunk and this resulted in the deaths of 1300 French servicemen. In respect of Hong Kong, the UK obtained it on a 99 year lease in 1898. Time ran out and it was handed back to China in 1997.
About Hong Kong most of what you said about the lease was true but there was a part of it which was not under lease and was actually owned by the British and Thatcher tried to hang on to it but deemed if it did it would be lost to invasion anyway, so the best solution was to hand it back but with a clause for one country two systems for 50 years until 2047 which was going well until China decided to break the clause last year.
Not the last time. The 5th Indian brigade comprising Indian, British, Australian and free French troops invaded Syria in 1941, which was held and governed by Vichy France.
That’s what’s slightly dangerous about the British, the average Brit is more proud than sorry. That’s why the rest of the world should always keep an eye on Britain. If they get bored shit tends to happen very quickly.
@@damedusa5107 The proud Brits are the insecure Brits. They're the ones who contribute nothing to our nation. The great brits are the ones who still now quietly get on with improving our nation with humility and honesty.
"The sun never set on the British empire, because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark." Which I always took as a point of pride to be honest.
@@moonshot9056 id agree with that. although as with brothers, you have to practice on someone!! to be completely fair to france (post us giving Napoleon getting a good slap), they are a decent military power and with the UK are the only 2 capable military countries within the continent! without the UK and the frogs, most of europe would be speaking ruski or german!
James Hacker: I sometimes wonder why we need the weapons. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister! You're not a unilateralist? James Hacker: I sometimes wonder, you know. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well then you must resign from the government! James Hacker: Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not *that* unilateralist! Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won't they? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians? James Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent. Sir Humphrey Appleby: It's to protect us against the French!
2 lessons America never learnt from Britain 1. Hearts & Minds 2. Brains over Brawn "You can always count on America to do the right thing, once they've tried everything else" ~ Winston Churchill
@@dominicc3521 hahah, I remember saying this to an American tourist on a trip to Scotland, his wife laughed and he was a little angry 😠. He had no sense humour 🤣
@@gedmccarthy9547 Yh mate 😂😂😂 Or maybe no sense at all :) But I can understand where he’s coming from. Some people just learn the high school stuff and then take it as it is for the rest of their lives
The Germans? If you are talking about the Angls, Saxons and other tribes from Northern Germany, they didn't invade England. They created it. Just like the Brits didn't "invade" Canada or Australia, these countries themselves were created and populated by the Brits.
@@adamthetired9319 No, they invaded. They conquered the local population. This idea that they or the Celts and Picts came over here peacefully and they assimilated into local culture is a lie. They invaded and conquered.
love this vid, gonna be fun seeing your reaction to it. p.s, if you hit that pause button we can add texas to this list ;-). great content, keep em coming Tex!
@@DrunkTexanSays you did good mate, imminent invasion postponed! if you really want to know how we stole the world, give this a quick watch..only 50sec long ruclips.net/video/_9W1zTEuKLY/видео.html at 1.10 of this part is how we gave them back ruclips.net/video/hxQYE3E8dEY/видео.html
I always find American's soft spot for France to be a bit ironic, the seven year war was France trying conquor what became the US, and if it wasn't for Britian they would be speaking French there. The high taxes and the cause for the war of independance, was a direct result of the seven year war, when the French helped out mainly to stick it to Great Britian and get revenge. They were very much not a friend of the US up until that point, and after the war of independance, tried to spark a second revolution in the US after their own. Believing that the US form of Government didn't represent the people well enough.
Hong Kong is a strange one - was officially leased for 100 years and sadly was returned to Chinese control in 97. Would have been much better if HK had an option to extend / become fully independent as they were effectively operating independently until China took over. At least we are making it easier for HK citizens to move to the UK now which is the least we can do to help those that want out especially as China is not respecting the agreements that were put in place to allow HK to operate independently although I doubt anyone ever actually thought they would.
The New Territories where leased, Honk Kong Island was annexed by the UK. When the lease ended Hong Kong island would have become uneconomic especially with all the people moving from the New Territories.
It’s certainly unfortunate. At the time of the handover, the British rule of Hong Kong created one of the most dynamic and prosperous places in Earth, although no Chinese I knew at the time were in favour of extension - prosperity and freedom took second place to nationalism and that’s understandable. Also - they missed Bermuda, falklands and Antarctica.
Basically, China said "right, it was only supposed to be 100 years... you've had that and then some. Give us Hong Kong. Or else." and 1997 Britain said "no problems buddy, we don't want any trouble..." Times change, yo. Unfortunately for the citizens of Hong Kong.
@@sherlockrobin597 it's still dynamic dearest place for property per square foot in the world though I don't say that is a good thing Britain used to be the workshop of the world I will let you guess which country has that accolade now ? Thank you your welcome
We give these nations Rules, Laws, Democracy , Educational systems, Roads & Railroads and we gave them all someone to hate..... not bad for a little old country
@@invernessfan3017 Most great Empires have plusses & minuses & what isn't acceptable now, was acceptable then. Also, if by Indian Famine you are talking about the Bengal famine, that was more to do with consequences of war than any overt policy from British Parliament.
@@invernessfan3017 i remember famines happening in India in the 80s, it was a regular occurrence, famines happen due to poor farming practices. Nothing to do with the British, we also got rid of the biggest gang India has ever known called The Thugees, hence we have the word Thug, this gang killed millions of Indians. Oh we also fought 7 wars to end the world wide practice of slavery, because we could see it was wrong. Learn some history, not angry twitter talking points.
Considering we are an extremely small collection of islands compared to America I'm impressed we really punched above our weight and managed to expand the empire that far xD
This is the main concern for me in this day in age.. Americans seem to think having the numbers they do means they could still win wars.. but Iraq and afghan shown them numbers means fuck all... We conquered because we're intelligent and our gene pool was on steroids from all the invasions of our own island. Even today this tiny island would kick fuck out of most countries and it's hilarious when people think other wise.
Interesting fact about Nepal: they impressed the British General Sir David Ochterlomy so much with their fearce resistance that he raised a regiment of them to fight in the British Army in 1815 and this regiment has remained a part of the British Army ever since. The Gurka Regiment is the Golden Ticket for Nepalese men wishing to make a better lives for their families and competition to get in is very tough. They're brave fighters and we're very lucky to have them on our side. Once they have finished serving they can settle in the UK with their families (sadly this hasn't always been the case).
It's also noticeable that the former British colonies tend to be successful stable liberal democracies. Australia, NZ, Canada and until the Trump presidency the USA. If you look at the former Spanish colonies they tend to have a history of military dictatorships and unstable governments.
Just addressing the first part of the video, Hong Kong was on a lease, so basically we agreed to give it back after a certain amount of time, we kept our part of the agreament and we gave it back once the time was up. One of the issues going on (just got this part from wiki, not great at explaining it myself) The Sino-British Joint Declaration is a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and China on Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty.[1] Signed on 19 December 1984 in Beijing,[2] the declaration describes the sovereign and administrative arrangement of Hong Kong after 1 July 1997, when the lease of the New Territories was set to expire according to the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. The treaty was signed by Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on behalf of their governments. It came into force when the instruments of ratification were exchanged on 27 May 1985, and was registered by the Chinese and British governments at the United Nations on 12 June 1985. In the Joint Declaration, the Chinese government stated that it would resume the exercise of its sovereignty over Hong Kong (including the British territories of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, and the leased New Territories) from 1 July 1997, and the British Government declared that it would hand over Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997. The Chinese government also declared its basic policies regarding Hong Kong in the document. In accordance with the "one country, two systems" principle agreed between the UK and China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) would not practise the socialist system in mainland China, and Hong Kong's existing capitalist system and way of life would be unchanged for 50 years until 2047. The Joint Declaration requires these basic policies to be written in the Hong Kong Basic Law. Whether the Declaration has practical effect after the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong is disputed by China, which said it is a "historical document that no longer had any practical significance", while the UK said that it is a "legally valid treaty to which it was committed to upholding" So because China has started not following on what it agreed, we're our offering people from Hong Kong citinship in the UK, essentially to piss off China and the fact they are not respecting the one country two systems principle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53246899
I hear about how bad the Brits were to other nations as we expanded our empire but one question these people cannot answer is why, if we treated them so badly, did the Empire volunteer to fight for King & Country in two world wars? And why do we have a Commonwealth to this day?
I am a Brit , this vid has forgotten about brave little Malta The Falkland Islands Ascension Island South Georgia and the new addition to the British crown we have just acquired huge parts of the South Antarctica .
Blame The Lag .... to which the well-known British-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw quipped: "... because God doesn't trust an Englishman in the dark!"
Nepal is the interesting one. So fierce were their soldiers fighting the British Army we now have Gurka regemints in the British Army. Its now a huge honour for the men from Nepal to join the ranks of the British Army. I myself have seen many of them whilst I was serving.
The french aided the independence movement in America, not to help the British colony (the Americans) but to thwart its arch rival Britain, and take over control of America and its ex British colonies, and turn them into French colonies. You are now mostly speaking English in America, and not eating frogs and snails, thanks to the British, A little gratitude would be appreciated.
All things considered, not-with-standing all the injustice that occurred in former times, is the world NOW a better place due to British influence? What would be the state of things today, if the Brits had stayed at home? Would it be fairer? Would it have matured? Democracy is fragile as we've recently seen, and some places just don't get it at all.
No one has commented for a while so I'm just here to keep up the occupation. I remember as a kid seeing maps and I used to get told the pink bits are British or former British colonies. I was a blown away as you to realise that most of the map was pink. As you were...
Actually that wasn't "big ben" that was "Elizabeth tower".....big Ben is actually the bell inside and it has its distinct sound when it ring because it was actually dropped & cracked a little when they first installed it! 😏🇬🇧🤣
Technically the video forgot a few other place like Hawaii, Falkland islands, some other islands that I can't remember and theres the territory the british own in the south Pole (Antarctica)
I like you and your style and have Subscribed, my friend. This South East Londoner can't believe the hue and cry and bleating from those Countries we visited on our World Tours. Sure we took a few souvenirs to commemorate the occasions but don't modern people take a stick of rock when they visit Spain or Coney Island or Florida. Same thing but on a slightly larger scale....
Technically, the drive to take over much of Africa was to 'protect' and 'civilise' the local populous. While I'm sure horrors were done in the name of 'civilising', Britain took a lead in ending the African slave trade at great expense and for little/no gain other than the end of suffering. Unfortunately, they did not do this until after some British people had made a lot of money from the trade. See 'Drachinifel's video 'Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron' for more info.
@@coupsdestylo So were Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands etc. However, that wasn't my point. The original comment is unjustifyingly trying to whitewash British history.
@@coupsdestylo How exactly does selling ppl. into an often horrible fate, full of torture and death protect or civilize ppl? And how civilized can the one, that does such horrible things, possibly be?
@@dellinger71 It was, it was also the force that ended it and gave the rest of the world the choice of stopping the trade or continual war with the British Empire.
@@dellinger71 No, I did not whitewash anything, if you read the whole comment you would have read the sentence "Unfortunately, they did not do this until after some British people had made a lot of money from the trade."
Im so proud i had a warm fuzzy feeling through the entire clip. Think its time for another trip to France got to grab some duty free & if all the practice we have given them has hardened them up a bit
A big shout out to the Spanish, they nicked the Gold and Silver from South America and handed it over to our ships on the way back to Spain......which was nice.
pity harold disbanded his army before attacking the french,look at size of army that one at stafford bridge {Harold II marched quickly south, immediately after the Battle of Stamford Bridge. He left many of his foot soldiers behind and exhausted the others. Harold II arrived in Sussex after two weeks of constant marching. www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsjnb9q/revision/4
france did more than just "help you out" in the revolution - they were critical to the outcome. I think it would have happened anyway, but not at that time, without help from the french navy.
@@rushdown3031 Not at all. Rule Britania is a relict of the past, totally meaningless today. It might even become much more meaningless within a few years, if Ni and RoI reunite, and Scotland leaves GB. The former would end the UK, the latter would end GB (or turn it into Little Britain).
That is actually Elizabeth Tower, part of the Houses of Parliament, it is often confused with Big Ben which is the name they gave the biggest Bell within it.
Wassington? We spent a thousand years being invaded by everybody from Rome to Scandinavia. So we learnt that the best form of defence is attack and did it first.
@@Isleofskye Wassington was the original spelling of the Surname of people who were early settlers from the UK in the early days of the US, but by the time they were organised into colonies and states it had already become Washington I've never seen any historical spelling or reference for Nicarague for Nicaragua but Irak is how it is often spelled across Arabic countries in their many languages
That would have been England..most of this video is when Scotland and Wales had become part of Britain as we know it, dtop trying to palm off your involvement in it all
It's not our fault. We just started a pub crawl and it got out of hand!
😂😂😂 yes!
🤣🤣🤣
True story
OK that made me laugh 🤣
Waiting for all this to blow over.
A country has to have a hobby! we've been annoying the French for a millennium, we've got good at it.
theres a book called 1000 years of annoying the french literally about this and its v good
@@joeallen848 your right ive read it😆
Tbf the French have been doing it to us for just as long.
@@joeallen848 Read it. Brilliant read and so funny
do you brush your teeth?
Quit picking on France?
But they're French, it's what we do.
Indeed, you could say it's our raison d'etre.
@@dangermouse9348 or indeed, plus ça change...
I heard that France is preparing for another possible war with the UK. Apparently they have recently put in an order for twenty five thousand white flags.
@@MattJMcDade Stop speaking surrender and say it in the Queen's English!
@@dylancavill1921 I may be a queen but I'm also English! ;-)
I am proud to be British.
As you should be!
I think it’s fair to say everyone is proud to be british the moment they are born here
@Jeannie Ellis Brilliant
@Jeannie Ellis GOD DAMN IT! Mary, Queen of Scots was supposed to remained beheaded and dead! Not possess Nicola Sturgeon
And to think China is gonna try and beat us at conquering the world 🤣
What’s even more impressive than the amount we went to war is the amount of times we won.
And he didn’t mention the Falklands
@@mrjinks5641 probably would’ve gotten him flagged by RUclips.
@@moonshot9056 I know that but we didn’t invade Iceland but he put that up.
@@mrjinks5641 Or South Georgia and Ascension island
@@andrewwaller5913 I know what he’s saying the Falklands and South Georgia where ours but since they where disputed he might have put them in anyway.
This video gives me a warm fuzzy feeling 😂🇬🇧
If we missed any countries don't worry we will get around to them eventually we need a full set😂🇬🇧
Like collecting pokemon cards
We know it’s our destiny
We're not done with France yet, we're on a break just to give them a false sense of security
Then they be more white flags that they have to use bog roll
Modern day france would probably twat us to be honest.
@@samsam-xk3er that's what we want them to believe
@@samsam-xk3er could never happen, because they are french.
@@matt7775 they have their own foreign policy and a stronger army. Equipment is probably about even. The only thing we have in our favour is navy. If we could keep them off the isles we would be okay but it goes on to English soil I can see them taking it
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You aint lyin haha
@@DrunkTexanSays don't worry, we'll give it back once we've done with it.
As is tradition.
If we are here long enough we start charging tax lol
@@GazzerYid09 once we have cleared it out of spicy food and Olympic standard athletes 😂😂
I like how the Brits have colonised the comments
That's because we invented the computer
@@jazzx251 And the internet.
British dude invented the internet bro
And the language...
@@jollybodger Not quite - Sir Tim Berners-Lee did indeed invent the world wide web
But the internet itself was designed to aid communications across the US military
The Dutch colonies were given back in return for them abolishing slavery.
@@coupsdestylo we did have naval battles with the Dutch not sure about land battles tho.
@@coupsdestylo i believe UK took them during Napoléonic wars or some war (not 100%) so that France didn't become too powerful in the region, the UK helped restore the then Dutch King to power with the caveat mentioned in op.
@@lesjames5191 The introduction of copper bottoms on our ships gave us an advantage over the Dutch although their invasion of England was a success hence James the second was replaced by William and Mary before that we fought the Dutch in a number of sea battles which we did not always win so it is not taught in our history lessons
Except Sri Lanka and South Africa. We kept them 😂
@@coupsdestylo Iceland invasion was to protect them and stop the Germans attacking. Its like sitting in a pub with your 6ft 6in 20 stone brother. Whos gonna dare pick on you?
Nope it's not big Ben, thats a very common mistake even for Brits, the bell inside is actually big Ben and the tower you seen is actually called Elizabeth Tower :)
The bell isn't called big Ben either, its called the great bell. It's unofficial nick name is big Ben. Although I'm British and have been to the Elizabeth tower multiple times, I only found that out from Vsauce hahaha
But we all call it big Ben. So,all good.
@@Trebor74 I don't...
The official name was "The Clock Tower" until 2012, when an Establishment lackey thought "If we call it the Elizabeth Tower, I'm sure to get a Knighthood".
(Just like the very late running Crossrail line which is now "The Elizabeth Line").
In this country, you can predict the name of every new construction (Elizabeth), and even if it's an old building, the name gets changed anyway!
@@MervynPartin And you don't survey the public for a name, otherwise you'll get y Mcface as one of the top suggestions...
...or an equally horrendous pun - several local authorities hit upon the idea of asking the public to name their gritter fleet, with Scotland being a prime example...
Don't be to sympathetic with France, they started it in 1066.
That was Norman's not the French. Basically Danish Vikings that settled in Normandy ;)
The Vikings settled in Northern France over 100 years prior to 1066, so the Normans that invaded in 1066 were at least 3rd generation and that makes them French as far as I'm concerned.
@@peterweaver5919 sorry to burst your bubble, Normandy didn't become part of France until 1204.
@@peterweaver5919 It may make them French in your book, but to the French at the time and for a long time afterwards, they certainly were not.
Normandy was a Duchy of France with the Duke owing fealty to the French King. Since the days of Rollo the descendents of the Vikings had intermarried with the local population, adopted Christianity and spoke a French dialect.
I always enjoy a spot of pedantry but really folks, this was just a light hearted remark.
But in the interests of being unreasonably stubborn, I'm sticking with them being to all intent and purpose French, so there!
Remember, British history is American history too, America gained independence but most Americans today can trace their ancestry back to places like Britain long after America gained Independence
The former 13 US colonies considered themselves British up until the end of the 18th Century. All the Founding Fathers thought they were truly British patriots.
It took 20 years for the former Colonies to gain their own identity as "Colombians" and the USA was originally going to be called Colombia... up until another country went and used that name first.
Well it does help that people eventually went there as Britain was apparently not holy enough for them.
@@jolan_tru Hence DC.
@@jolan_tru And you only have to look at the American flag, to remember that! The 13 red & white stripes on the 'stars & stripes', are the 13 British colonies! The flag itself, copied from the flag of The British East India Company.. Which flew on every trading vessel from that company, bringing goods to America before/after independence! .. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_East_India_Company
How to wind an American up? Call him a colonial. How to wind a gentleman from the deep south of America up? Call him a Yank.
Brings a tear to my eye it’s so beautiful
The conversation over Iceland went something like this:
B: "Hey Iceland, we're just going to station some troops with you so the Nazis can't use you as a flanking location, k?"
I: "Outrageous! We can defend ourselves!"
B: "Well clearly you can't, cause watch this..."
tSp289 fucking Lol 😂
As an Englishman wanting to move (not invade, I promise) to the states (Texas preferably), this channel is brilliant! Keep it up!
Texas is where its at! We have so much work here that salaries are going up to fill the spots and the cost of living is waaaaaaaaaay lower than new york or California. For the price of a large 4 bedroom home with a big front and back yard, you can get a tiny ass apartment in New York
@@DrunkTexanSays Seems like a no brainer! Cali, NY, and Illinois have completely lost their appeal! Texas all the way!
@@DrunkTexanSays But how much is healthcare?
The downside is its texas
@@BugattiBoy01 at least it isnt florida
Yeah we’re knackered, so we’re having a sit down.
Parkour was invented in France so they could find more dynamic ways to run from us
I actually laughed out loud at this hahahahaha
@@DrunkTexanSays French Rifle for sale, Fired once, dropped once!
How about 1066 when the French kicked your sorry ass.
They got lucky. Especially after we beat a viking army the day before. Boys were tired
@@prebioticc They must have been tired for 300 years for thats how long the French ruled in England and the official language was French.
We got invaded for 1000 years so we spent the last 1000 having ago ourselves 😂
paybacks' a beetch innit?
Absolutely Spot On ! Bravo !
Being invaded for 1000 years of north European tribes, just enhanced the gene pool
@@stuartpage8517 and it created a monster no one could stop haha can definitely blame the vikings for a starter's
We only borrowed Hong Kong, and it wanted to stay with the UK in the end.
Which is part of the reasons why there are so many issues going on at the moment.
Yeah Hong Kong was a part of a deal signed with China that after 100 years we will hand it back.... But them folks in Hong Kong did not want to as they had freedom and democracy under the UK flag and you can look into to see how well Hong Kong was doing while the rest of China was struggling and some of the stories of Chinese people fleeing China to get into Hong Kong are astounding I remmebr hearing one of a couple swam to Hong during a typhoon
Johnson has offered 3 million HK Chinese asylum here, since the crackdown by CCP on HK dissenters.
didnt the british literally create Hong Kong as a base to export opium and other goods after the opium wars? pretty sure nobody lived on that rock until the british set up shop
@@moonshot9056 yeah they granted us the island but i dont believe there was anything there like a town or any infrastructure, just a rock off the south coast of china, theres a great Kings and Generals video explaining about Jardine-Matheson who were the chief opium traffickers that prompted both the war and also the settling of Hong Kong, if you're interested you should definitely check it out
We only borrowed the New Territories. Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula where owned by Britain. Hong Kong Island was formally ceded to the United Kingdom in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking then Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island in the Convention of Peking In 1860. The colony was further expanded in 1898 when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories. On 19 December 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, in which Britain agreed to return not only the New Territories but also Kowloon and Hong Kong itself when the lease term expired.
We did not get kicked out of Hong Kong. The lease was up in 1997 so we left
Well, I can imagine if Britain had the fighting power to hold on to it they would.
@@maytheoddsbeinyourfavour Highly unlikely. The United Kingdom actually has a historic record of honouring treaties and agreements.
@@mattyrose8937 I guess so, but Anglo-Sino relations haven’t been the best for hundreds of years, and in this scenario, if they had the power to fight China, there is a possibility they would. This may be for their national image, as this is commonly referred to as the “last colony to leave the empire”. I doubt it would go into a conflict, but I can imagine the UK saying no.
@@maytheoddsbeinyourfavour The United Kingdom has never gone to war over a breach of an international treaty, that it caused. Not once.
Your hypothetical is simply not plausible.
Perhaps the US, with a long and inglorious history of tearing up international agreements and treaties, might do such a thing, but it is beyond improbable to imagine the UK disavowing a treaty that it had signed, then launching a war of aggression because of it? That's Twilight Zone levels of crazy.
@@mattyrose8937 Jesus okay, I get you have a point, no need to exaggerate. I’m not saying the UK would go to war, I’m saying that there could be a diplomatic resistance, possibly even denying it, unless it escalated further, or a request to hold it (sorry for being indirect).
The last time France and England fought was probably not as long ago as you might think. During WW2 the Commander of the French Navy promised to scuttle their ships for fear of them falling into German hands - but failed to do so. This put Churchill in a difficult position. In 1940 he finally instructed the Royal Navy to do the job for them. The fleet was sunk and this resulted in the deaths of 1300 French servicemen.
In respect of Hong Kong, the UK obtained it on a 99 year lease in 1898. Time ran out and it was handed back to China in 1997.
About Hong Kong most of what you said about the lease was true but there was a part of it which was not under lease and was actually owned by the British and Thatcher tried to hang on to it but deemed if it did it would be lost to invasion anyway, so the best solution was to hand it back but with a clause for one country two systems for 50 years until 2047 which was going well until China decided to break the clause last year.
Pearl harbor was the fault of the British. They showed the Japanese how to attack a harbour, they took the idea and ran with it.
Not the last time. The 5th Indian brigade comprising Indian, British, Australian and free French troops invaded Syria in 1941, which was held and governed by Vichy France.
On the french in ww2 if they lasted more than 45 days we wouldn’t of had to use operation catapult
the last time England beat France was in at bar during the World Cup lol
Go on, be honest, as a brit, don't you feel a glow of pride?.... yeh you do.
I was just laughing the whole time because we are the best country at fighting in the world. And that final map proves it lol.
That’s what’s slightly dangerous about the British, the average Brit is more proud than sorry. That’s why the rest of the world should always keep an eye on Britain. If they get bored shit tends to happen very quickly.
Yeah but none of this was you. In fact, what are you contributing to our nation exactly?
@@damedusa5107 The proud Brits are the insecure Brits. They're the ones who contribute nothing to our nation. The great brits are the ones who still now quietly get on with improving our nation with humility and honesty.
@@dickmonkey-king1271 got any reason to suspect people with pride are doing nothing for our country?
"The sun never sets on the British empire." ;)
Still going, Britain has port islands all over that we currently let the USA use.
"The sun never set on the British empire, because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark." Which I always took as a point of pride to be honest.
And the moral of the story is, Don't back the French 🤣
Or fk with 🏴
@peter jones we tell them to get out of the English Channel. It’s ours. The French can bugger off.
french actually have the higher win ratio in wars oops look how big it is surrounded by enemies on all sides historically
It seems like Britain invades a country, builds them a railway system, introduces them to tea and then says good say sir, thanks for having us.
France and the UK has a very . . . unusual relationship.
Let's just leave it at that.
Oui
@@moonshot9056 id agree with that. although as with brothers, you have to practice on someone!! to be completely fair to france (post us giving Napoleon getting a good slap), they are a decent military power and with the UK are the only 2 capable military countries within the continent! without the UK and the frogs, most of europe would be speaking ruski or german!
France and the uk is like a brother from a different mother
James Hacker:
I sometimes wonder why we need the weapons.
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Minister! You're not a unilateralist?
James Hacker:
I sometimes wonder, you know.
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Well then you must resign from the government!
James Hacker:
Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not *that* unilateralist! Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won't they?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Russians? Who's talking about the Russians?
James Hacker:
Well, the independent deterrent.
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
It's to protect us against the French!
Yeah we hate each other
If you saw the weather here in Britain sometimes, you'd understand this desire to invade everywhere else.
It is largely due to the crap weather in the UK that the 73 attempts to invade us have pretty much always failed
@@TheComputec *sad trumpet plays as the spanish armada wreck themselves off the coast*
@@TheComputec Vikings: *my power is beyond your understanding*
That map at the end looking mighty sexy to a British person. 😂
We just went; "Yeah, that's plenty. Getting bored now".
2 lessons America never learnt from Britain
1. Hearts & Minds
2. Brains over Brawn
"You can always count on America to do the right thing, once they've tried everything else" ~ Winston Churchill
The American war of independance? We were really fighting ourselves 😅🤣😂
It was a war of independence but also a civil war. British Vs British Brother vs Brother
@@dominicc3521 hahah, I remember saying this to an American tourist on a trip to Scotland, his wife laughed and he was a little angry 😠. He had no sense humour 🤣
@@gedmccarthy9547 Yh mate 😂😂😂 Or maybe no sense at all :) But I can understand where he’s coming from. Some people just learn the high school stuff and then take it as it is for the rest of their lives
The only thing left to do was invade ourselves, the circle became complete 😂
@@PeteJBC 😅🤣😂
9:40 Britain just damn straight went through Africa as if they where playing a Civ 6 domination game.
Gun beats spear.
@@andycleary6209
Flashbacks to Civ3 with a lone spearman destroying my tanks..
In fairness to the French, the Germans, the Italians and the Nordic Counties they invaded us first
Very true lol.
Same with the Scots and Irish.
The Germans? If you are talking about the Angls, Saxons and other tribes from Northern Germany, they didn't invade England. They created it. Just like the Brits didn't "invade" Canada or Australia, these countries themselves were created and populated by the Brits.
& were ultimately repelled, then defeated
@@adamthetired9319 No, they invaded. They conquered the local population.
This idea that they or the Celts and Picts came over here peacefully and they assimilated into local culture is a lie.
They invaded and conquered.
this is going to be quite a list... we took our foreign 'holidays' seriously.
"...quit picking on France!" Can I just direct your attention to the events of 1066 AD?
Haha
1066, Normans of Danish descent.
@@JohnJones-cp4wh Shhh you've got to give them something lest they be banging on about Napoleon all the time.
The Normans were Vikings, not French.
@@JohnJones-cp4wh They had been living in France for 150 years at the time and spoke French.
love this vid, gonna be fun seeing your reaction to it.
p.s, if you hit that pause button we can add texas to this list ;-).
great content, keep em coming Tex!
I do pretty good with the pause button on this one :)
@@DrunkTexanSays you did good mate, imminent invasion postponed! if you really want to know how we stole the world, give this a quick watch..only 50sec long
ruclips.net/video/_9W1zTEuKLY/видео.html
at 1.10 of this part is how we gave them back
ruclips.net/video/hxQYE3E8dEY/видео.html
I always find American's soft spot for France to be a bit ironic, the seven year war was France trying conquor what became the US, and if it wasn't for Britian they would be speaking French there. The high taxes and the cause for the war of independance, was a direct result of the seven year war, when the French helped out mainly to stick it to Great Britian and get revenge. They were very much not a friend of the US up until that point, and after the war of independance, tried to spark a second revolution in the US after their own. Believing that the US form of Government didn't represent the people well enough.
With respect to the Yanks, I think it would take more than being ruled by France for them to learn French.
We weren't invading - just ensuring that the whole world benefited from a decent cup of tea, ^oo^
Hong Kong is a strange one - was officially leased for 100 years and sadly was returned to Chinese control in 97. Would have been much better if HK had an option to extend / become fully independent as they were effectively operating independently until China took over. At least we are making it easier for HK citizens to move to the UK now which is the least we can do to help those that want out especially as China is not respecting the agreements that were put in place to allow HK to operate independently although I doubt anyone ever actually thought they would.
The New Territories where leased, Honk Kong Island was annexed by the UK. When the lease ended Hong Kong island would have become uneconomic especially with all the people moving from the New Territories.
It’s certainly unfortunate. At the time of the handover, the British rule of Hong Kong created one of the most dynamic and prosperous places in Earth, although no Chinese I knew at the time were in favour of extension - prosperity and freedom took second place to nationalism and that’s understandable. Also - they missed Bermuda, falklands and Antarctica.
Basically, China said "right, it was only supposed to be 100 years... you've had that and then some. Give us Hong Kong. Or else." and 1997 Britain said "no problems buddy, we don't want any trouble..."
Times change, yo.
Unfortunately for the citizens of Hong Kong.
Kronos you are an A class bore blah blah bloody blah
@@sherlockrobin597 it's still dynamic dearest place for property per square foot in the world though I don't say that is a good thing Britain used to be the workshop of the world I will let you guess which country has that accolade now ? Thank you your welcome
We give these nations Rules, Laws, Democracy , Educational systems, Roads & Railroads and we gave them all someone to hate..... not bad for a little old country
The British Empire did some terrible crimes such as potato famine, and the famines in British Empire India.
@@invernessfan3017 Most great Empires have plusses & minuses & what isn't acceptable now, was acceptable then. Also, if by Indian Famine you are talking about the Bengal famine, that was more to do with consequences of war than any overt policy from British Parliament.
@@invernessfan3017 i remember famines happening in India in the 80s, it was a regular occurrence, famines happen due to poor farming practices. Nothing to do with the British, we also got rid of the biggest gang India has ever known called The Thugees, hence we have the word Thug, this gang killed millions of Indians. Oh we also fought 7 wars to end the world wide practice of slavery, because we could see it was wrong. Learn some history, not angry twitter talking points.
Such immense power from such a small nation.
[Sips tea smuggly]
Considering we are an extremely small collection of islands compared to America I'm impressed we really punched above our weight and managed to expand the empire that far xD
This is the main concern for me in this day in age.. Americans seem to think having the numbers they do means they could still win wars.. but Iraq and afghan shown them numbers means fuck all... We conquered because we're intelligent and our gene pool was on steroids from all the invasions of our own island. Even today this tiny island would kick fuck out of most countries and it's hilarious when people think other wise.
To the parts of the world we haven't invaded; nothing personal, we were just busy.
Interesting fact about Nepal: they impressed the British General Sir David Ochterlomy so much with their fearce resistance that he raised a regiment of them to fight in the British Army in 1815 and this regiment has remained a part of the British Army ever since. The Gurka Regiment is the Golden Ticket for Nepalese men wishing to make a better lives for their families and competition to get in is very tough. They're brave fighters and we're very lucky to have them on our side. Once they have finished serving they can settle in the UK with their families (sadly this hasn't always been the case).
Never say Nups to THe Nepalese...
America- We are the superpower everyone fears
British- Hold my beer
*** god save the Queen starts playing
Hold my Yard of Indian Pale Ale (IPA So called because it "travelled" well and was in good condition for the British to drink in India)
"FIIIX BAYONETS ".
Holdeth my imperialism.
Britain: Son(America) how many wars have you won on your own.
America: ummm the cival war.
Britain: How disappointing
It's also noticeable that the former British colonies tend to be successful stable liberal democracies. Australia, NZ, Canada and until the Trump presidency the USA. If you look at the former Spanish colonies they tend to have a history of military dictatorships and unstable governments.
Also interesting to see the general difference between the countries that stayed with BE vs the US.
Trump did good, just wait till sleepy Joe has finished his job then do a comparison.
Sorry mate but trump would have fitted in nicely. He is quite highly thought of with the English working classes sorry to burst your bubble pal
@@bermondsey548428 Not really, a lot of people in the working class see through that.
@@numega7323 you are either in cuckoo land or on some sort of mind blowing substance
Just addressing the first part of the video, Hong Kong was on a lease, so basically we agreed to give it back after a certain amount of time, we kept our part of the agreament and we gave it back once the time was up. One of the issues going on (just got this part from wiki, not great at explaining it myself)
The Sino-British Joint Declaration is a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and China on Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty.[1] Signed on 19 December 1984 in Beijing,[2] the declaration describes the sovereign and administrative arrangement of Hong Kong after 1 July 1997, when the lease of the New Territories was set to expire according to the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory.
The treaty was signed by Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on behalf of their governments. It came into force when the instruments of ratification were exchanged on 27 May 1985, and was registered by the Chinese and British governments at the United Nations on 12 June 1985. In the Joint Declaration, the Chinese government stated that it would resume the exercise of its sovereignty over Hong Kong (including the British territories of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, and the leased New Territories) from 1 July 1997, and the British Government declared that it would hand over Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997.
The Chinese government also declared its basic policies regarding Hong Kong in the document. In accordance with the "one country, two systems" principle agreed between the UK and China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) would not practise the socialist system in mainland China, and Hong Kong's existing capitalist system and way of life would be unchanged for 50 years until 2047. The Joint Declaration requires these basic policies to be written in the Hong Kong Basic Law.
Whether the Declaration has practical effect after the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong is disputed by China, which said it is a "historical document that no longer had any practical significance", while the UK said that it is a "legally valid treaty to which it was committed to upholding"
So because China has started not following on what it agreed, we're our offering people from Hong Kong citinship in the UK, essentially to piss off China and the fact they are not respecting the one country two systems principle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53246899
We are the most invaded island on the planet, we were just showing the world how to do it properly 🧐👍
I hear about how bad the Brits were to other nations as we expanded our empire but one question these people cannot answer is why, if we treated them so badly, did the Empire volunteer to fight for King & Country in two world wars? And why do we have a Commonwealth
to this day?
As the saying goes, “the sun never sets on the British Empire” 😆
Just a quick hello from Birmingham UK 🇬🇧 hands across the waters love the Channel 👌 keep up the hard work really appreciated 👍
Comments like this really motivate me! Thank you! Cheers from Houston!
I am a Brit , this vid has forgotten about brave little Malta The Falkland Islands Ascension Island South Georgia and the new addition to the British crown we have just acquired huge parts of the South Antarctica .
Jesus Christ what is wrong with you British people damn the Romans and Vikings also very well teach you how to go to war or something😲😲
theres a saying we learned in school is 'the sun never sets on the British Empire'
Blame The Lag .... to which the well-known British-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw quipped:
"... because God doesn't trust an Englishman in the dark!"
But the Spanish Empire learned that phrase four hundred years earlier :)
"We come in peace" was the motto - lol.
Actually, you come in boat!
4:40 "we were there too" you turned up about 20 minutes before the final whistle went mate. 🤣🤣🤣 Good video though
Both times.
The sun never sets on the British Empire
no beer today? Well i have my wine haha :) still loving the content
Yeah I was on call when I recorded this video so I couldnt drink :(( but I will most definitely be drinking for the next one!
this is what you get with 6 weeks paid holidays a year lol
Nepal is the interesting one. So fierce were their soldiers fighting the British Army we now have Gurka regemints in the British Army. Its now a huge honour for the men from Nepal to join the ranks of the British Army. I myself have seen many of them whilst I was serving.
The french aided the independence movement in America, not to help the British colony (the Americans) but to thwart its arch rival Britain, and take over control of America and its ex British colonies, and turn them into French colonies.
You are now mostly speaking English in America, and not eating frogs and snails, thanks to the British,
A little gratitude would be appreciated.
And the French were actually an absolute monarchy - unlike the British.
Everywhere we didn’t go, wasn’t worth going to!
Big Ben is the bell, that was Westminster tower now called the Elizabeth tower.
Mate, I love your British themed vids hahah
Turns out the way to beat the game is dominate that big blue bit.
Underrated comment right here....!
"..We were there too..."
Yeh....eventually,,,
When we "flexed" we "FLEXED".
Like your way cousin, there's nothing better than a man who has a laugh and likes a drink.
Hell yeah 😎
The original “Size doesn’t matter”
😂 We Brits certainly proved it's the "motion in the ocean" that counts!😄
And that motion being our endless fleets of battleships.
@@lazlow9640 And the fact that we were willing to go and risk everything for glory and wealth. Unlike so many of the younger generation of today.
Keep them coming man make me feel old when you said when you where born 🤣 all the best from Folkestone kent UK.👍👍
All things considered, not-with-standing all the injustice that occurred in former times, is the world NOW a better place due to British influence?
What would be the state of things today, if the Brits had stayed at home?
Would it be fairer?
Would it have matured?
Democracy is fragile as we've recently seen, and some places just don't get it at all.
No one has commented for a while so I'm just here to keep up the occupation.
I remember as a kid seeing maps and I used to get told the pink bits are British or former British colonies. I was a blown away as you to realise that most of the map was pink.
As you were...
I knew we invaded a lot of countries but I didn’t realise how many until now. Not bad for such a small country! (They also forgot the Falklands)
The Falklands war wasn't a hostile invasion it was reclaiming what was ours.
They mentioned Argentina which used to own The Falklands until we put them straight!
Anyone would think it was on their doorstep :)
@@Isleofskye used to unofficially own Argentina too when it was worth owning. 🇳🇿👍
Actually that wasn't "big ben" that was "Elizabeth tower".....big Ben is actually the bell inside and it has its distinct sound when it ring because it was actually dropped & cracked a little when they first installed it! 😏🇬🇧🤣
Technically the video forgot a few other place like Hawaii, Falkland islands, some other islands that I can't remember and theres the territory the british own in the south Pole (Antarctica)
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This South East Londoner can't believe the hue and cry and bleating from those Countries we visited on our World Tours.
Sure we took a few souvenirs to commemorate the occasions but don't modern people take a stick of rock when they visit Spain or Coney Island or Florida.
Same thing but on a slightly larger scale....
"Quit picking on France"
We can't help it though, how could we let them have nice things. They have France, isn't that enough!?
We're just having a break, before we decide who to anex next, just to piss them off 😂😂😂
Technically, the drive to take over much of Africa was to 'protect' and 'civilise' the local populous. While I'm sure horrors were done in the name of 'civilising', Britain took a lead in ending the African slave trade at great expense and for little/no gain other than the end of suffering. Unfortunately, they did not do this until after some British people had made a lot of money from the trade.
See 'Drachinifel's video 'Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron' for more info.
The British Empire was one of the largest slave traders in human history.
@@coupsdestylo
So were Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands etc. However, that wasn't my point. The original comment is unjustifyingly trying to whitewash British history.
@@coupsdestylo
How exactly does selling ppl. into an often horrible fate, full of torture and death protect or civilize ppl?
And how civilized can the one, that does such horrible things, possibly be?
@@dellinger71 It was, it was also the force that ended it and gave the rest of the world the choice of stopping the trade or continual war with the British Empire.
@@dellinger71 No, I did not whitewash anything, if you read the whole comment you would have read the sentence "Unfortunately, they did not do this until after some British people had made a lot of money from the trade."
Im so proud i had a warm fuzzy feeling through the entire clip. Think its time for another trip to France got to grab some duty free & if all the practice we have given them has hardened them up a bit
Yeah we did like to go visiting
That final map at 13:40 shows the British Isles as MUCH bigger than it actually is by at least twice the size
We missed some.There's still time.
To the ships
Lol
A big shout out to the Spanish, they nicked the Gold and Silver from South America and handed it over to our ships on the way back to Spain......which was nice.
Iraq is an anglisation of the older name Irak, it still pops up occasionally in English, and is quite common in other languages.
Yes you were there too, but you were late! :) Happy to discuss over a few bud lights 😊
pity harold disbanded his army before attacking the french,look at size of army that one at stafford bridge {Harold II marched quickly south, immediately after the Battle of Stamford Bridge. He left many of his foot soldiers behind and exhausted the others. Harold II arrived in Sussex after two weeks of constant marching. www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsjnb9q/revision/4
france did more than just "help you out" in the revolution - they were critical to the outcome. I think it would have happened anyway, but not at that time, without help from the french navy.
They wouldn't have won the War of Independence if we didn't already have our hands full elsewhere ...lol
Ye if France didn’t help they would of lost tbh
After all the French were bitter from losing the 7 years war with us, so they found another way to irritate us lol
It's like any game of Monopoly. Whoever's first to throw a double-six gets round the board first...
I say you attempt 30 accents from across the UK, that’d be mint haha!
Oh and “Ayup” is Yorkshire slang meaning hi - should use that!
I see you're enjoying the England and Britain's world tour
I had to look it up because I, too, have not seen Iraq spelt as 'Irak'! Apparently, Irak is a rare spelling of Iraq.
Well the summer holidays are very long, gotta have something to do.
RULE BRITANNIA!
Say it again, but in past tense.
@@dellinger71 Nope.
@@rushdown3031
So, still no realism?
@@dellinger71 Real butthurt you are, seek help you must.
@@rushdown3031
Not at all. Rule Britania is a relict of the past, totally meaningless today.
It might even become much more meaningless within a few years, if Ni and RoI reunite, and Scotland leaves GB. The former would end the UK, the latter would end GB (or turn it into Little Britain).
That is actually Elizabeth Tower, part of the Houses of Parliament, it is often confused with Big Ben which is the name they gave the biggest Bell within it.
13:38 it was become the conqueror or be conquered at the time
That Owen Wilson wow just killed me 😅🤣
Wassington?
We spent a thousand years being invaded by everybody from Rome to Scandinavia. So we learnt that the best form of defence is attack and did it first.
I think originally it was de Wessington and came over with the normans, now its Washington but I could be wrong.
............and did it better!
WasSington and NicaraguE and IraK were the 3 mistakes I noticed...:)
@@Isleofskye Wassington was the original spelling of the Surname of people who were early settlers from the UK in the early days of the US, but by the time they were organised into colonies and states it had already become Washington
I've never seen any historical spelling or reference for Nicarague for Nicaragua but Irak is how it is often spelled across Arabic countries in their many languages
I bow to your superior knowledge of this matters, mi amigo :)
Actually Britian didn't control all of the area on that world map, that's just all of the places we invaded, but a lot of it we did rule yes.
I think Scotland & Wales might have something to say about being invaded first
Too right.
That would have been England..most of this video is when Scotland and Wales had become part of Britain as we know it, dtop trying to palm off your involvement in it all
@@tyrantsquirrel575 ?
'When you receive money you should pay in back'
USA: No, I don't think I will
Hey that wasn't my fault. Lmao